Fictive Kinship Quotes

#1. For Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

Jack Weatherford

#2. Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Mary Douglas

#3. Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.

Walter Moers

#4. A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

Kelley Armstrong

#6. Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.

Mike McCue

#8. I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

Nancy Spain

#9. Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Dorothy Allison

#10. I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

James Lee Burke

#11. Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

Jamie Zawinski

#12. I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch.
Dive inside each other.
Take each other.
Make each other.
Nothing happens, though.

Markus Zusak

#13. You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

Hailee Steinfeld

#15. The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

J.I. Packer

#16. The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Samora Machel